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ReferencePHPN/3

Title

Production photographs of Britten's opera Billy Budd

Date1952

DescriptionEight black and white photographs of Britten, Crozier and Forster working on the libretto in 1949;the first production at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden by Covent Garden Opera, 1951; also photographs of Britten, Crozier and Forster working on the libretto, 1949. There are two stills of the NBC film of Billy Budd made in 195, and one of the film by Anglo-Allied Pictures starring Peter Ustinov and Robert Ryan, 1962.
11 stills from the BBC TV production of the revised 2 act version, 1966; 13 photographs of a production in 1978-9 at The Metropolitan Opera, New York, including 7 contact prints by Victor Parker

Extent114 photographs

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